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Download full textGeneral Accounting Office, Washington, DC. – 1986
The Government Accounting Office (GAO) reviewed 71 actuarial, behavioral, and economic models that are used for retirement forecasting, focusing on models of federal retirement program costs, civilian retirement decisions, and retirement income. GAO wished to determine to what extent the models have been documented, to what extent the models are…
Descriptors: Data Interpretation, Decision Making, Income, Mathematical Models
Sanders, Petrus Franciscus – 1992
The application of mathematical programming techniques is extended to the construction of measurement instruments in generalizability theory. Key concepts in generalizability theory are explained and a description is given of: (1) the one-facet crossed design; (2) the two-facet crossed design; and (3) a two-facet nested design. The optimization of…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Data Interpretation, Decision Making, Equations (Mathematics)
Peer reviewedTappin, Linda – Mathematics Teacher, 1994
Presents an activity to analyze the data from the Challenger explosion to help students understand the critical role of statistics in decision making and the importance of considering all available data. (MKR)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Interpretation, Decision Making, Exponents (Mathematics)
